Retro gems: From NES to the PS

[Black Francis]

RetroGems!




I decided to make a Videogame journal about retro videogames, this journal will focus on Nes, Snes, GBA and Ps titles (at least from my end) but i welcome any of you guys entries from other consoles, i chose these one because im not only gonna use this journal to share the retro gems i know but im hoping to find some decent some decent roms from you guys suggestions.

The cut off is N64 and Ps1 games.
that is to say, anything more advanced than that would not be accessible to me BUT if you must share a great retro gamecube game or Xbox game that is not a common title go ahead and do so but plz keep it to a minimum.

Keep in mind the criteria that the game you're talking about should be easily accessible through emulation also, NO PC GAMES!

im srry but this is a console journal, if you're into PC games i suggest KI's journal, they're not welcome here.

[YorkeDaddy]

Obligatory "Donkey Kong Country 2 is the greatest 2D platformer ever made and you should play it" post

[Black Francis]

I'll start with a Snes/genesis sim game called Aerobiz supersonic




To my knowledge this the only snes/genesis airplane line sim management game out there and it's a good one too.

You have to manage your almost every aspect of owning an airline but the game does a good job of simplifying the tasks so that it never gets too complicated.

There's not alot of good sim games in the 16 bit era apart from Sim city and the ones that are remain obscure titles as this one or sim ants. This is the only airline sim management game ive ever played and honestly i thought it would suck which is why i was surprised when it didn't.

Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Obligatory "Donkey Kong Country 2 is the greatest 2D platformer ever made and you should play it" post

Never played that one although i hear it's alot of ppl's favorite one. i only played the 1st one.

[Carpe Mortem]

Dragon Warrior Monsters is a ****ing excellent gameboy title. Similar to Pokemon but... I dare say... BETTER. The breeding doesn't just result in new stats, it sometimes results in a new monster entirely, and through many generations you can experience that titillating moment where the resulting offspring is a rare mystery (listed as ????) Until it hatches. Really awesome game, can't recommend it enough. Its predesssors, the Dragon Warrior games, are also excellent RPG's.

Gameplay entry straight from wiki:

The" game follows Terry as he attempts to save his sister. Instead of fighting in battle, Terry is able to recruit monsters into his party. When fighting random battles, Terry can set out meat, which may coax the monster into joining the party at the end of the battle. Terry can also breed two monsters, combining them into a new, stronger monster. Excess monsters can be placed on the Farm, a storage place for monsters. They can be picked up or dropped off and there is an option to put monsters at the farm to sleep, which allows them to maintain their wilderness level, but not grow in level. There can be 19 awake and 19 asleep monsters at any one time. A monster's wilderness level lowers as Terry trains them, which makes them more likely to participate in battle. By leaving monsters at the farm awake, they become more wild.

Just like in most RPGs, monsters are able to gain experience points and level up after battles. Each monsters' requirements for experience points to level up varies, depending on their plus number or even what monster family they belong to. When they level up, they gain stats and sometimes skills. All monsters can carry a maximum of eight skills; if a monster can gain more than eight skills you have the option of replacing old skills with new ones.

The player moves around to other worlds through warp gates which are located underneath the throne room. To access these gates, the player needs to defeat a certain class ranking. There are a certain number of areas in a world and at the last one, the player needs to defeat a boss. Some bosses in the game offer to join the player's party automatically, some have to be won over with meat, and some will not join at all. Other gates are hidden throughout Great Tree, such as one in the library that is only accessible after befriending over 100 different monsters.

In this game the player fights in the arena and goes through ranks that consists of three different battles that must be won before the player can advance to the next ranking. Each rank provides harder challenges: the higher the rank, the harder the monsters. The battles you able to start at are from Rank G and go to Rank D and later in the game you are able to go from Rank C to Rank A and then Rank S. These battles open up gates for the character to explore and are necessary to progress through the story.

Tiny Medals are scattered throughout different worlds randomly and are picked up by the player. In the game, there is a man who collects these medals, who is later revealed to be the king of Great Tree, and will give certain monster eggs for how many the player gives to him. Also, Foreign Masters may appear while in other worlds. These encounters with other trainers can result in battle. There are different types of trainers that will give or do something for the player if they are defeated. These trainers monsters may also join you if you give them meat.

The game also comes compatible with the PlayStation's i-mode adaptor, allowing players to upload monsters from the game onto the mobile phone version of Dragon Quest Monsters.[6]

BreedingEdit
After beating Class F in the Arena, the player can breed monsters if they are at level 10 or above at the Shrine of Starry Night, which is taken care of by the current Master Monster Tamer. Breeding requires one male and one female monster. The result of the breeding will be an egg, containing a level 1 monster which has characteristics of both parents, including skills and stats. The egg can then be left in the monster farm or hatched, which costs a small fee. The monster born will have a plus number next to it, the number generally signifying the greatness of the monster's stats, the higher being the better. It costs more money to hatch a monster with a higher plus number than one with no plus number. Also, the number beside the plus multiplied by two is added to the limit for the maximum level for the monster.

Once the Egg Evaluator is available for use, eggs can have the gender of the monster they're containing checked and changed. Both requires a small fee which is paid to the Egg Evaluator. The fee increases depending on the monster's plus number.

A monster that was created through breeding has much higher stats and many more abilities than a monster that was found in the wild, thus it is much harder to complete the game without breeding many generations. Breeding is also the only way to acquire certain monsters. Also, the monsters that bred to make the egg leave you."

[CoNtrivedNiHilism]

If I don't see Chrono Trigger in this journal. I'm unsubscribing this sh*t.

[Black Francis]

Good entry @Carpe
i'll be checking that one out.

speaking of similar games to pokemon

Digimon world 3 (PS1)



I played this game on the recommendation of my Otaku friends and it was as good as they said.

Description :

You play as a child called Junior who enters an online virtual reality MMORPG called "Digimon Online", which is run by the "MAGAMI" corporation. A terrorist attack on the Internet traps Junior and his friends inside the game and he sets out to stop them with his Digimon partners. Unlike past Digimon World games, battles against wild Digimon are random and the battle system although turn-based is very different from Digimon World 2, a notable distinction is battles are one on one instead of three on three although you may tag in a different Digimon, battles also feature three types of digivolution; normal, Blast, and DNA digivolution.

And like Pokemon, your starter set is very important in this game

[Black Francis]

You get the option from 3 starter packs "Powerful" "Balanced" "Maniac"

I personally chose Maniac



Each of your 3 Digimon has 3 different evolutions you can achieve fairly quickly and you can get new digimons later but that's gonna take awhile that's why it's important to chose a starter pack that fit your needs.

Digimon or not this is just a good well made rpg game, it's one of those games you can roam anywhere pretty much from the start, like the pokemon games it gives you the freedom to go everywhere BUT unlike those games, you don't really need to talk to every Npc to progress and you dont need "cut" for silly obstacles, you can wherever you like and the story unfolds as you do, it's pretty great.

The only flaw i see in this game is that the evolutions are kinda just handed to you too quick.
you'll grind happily to get them but once you do the excitement is kinda over and getting new digimons aint that easy

[The Batlord]

Just gonna demand that you pick Ogre Battle back up. Oh, and I'll throw out my love to FFIIIV. First 3D rpg I ever played, and the graphics, intricate storyline, and great characters just blew my mind. The fact that the gameplay was like crack was a bonus. I've never gotten over it getting stolen in military school. One of my favorite games of all time, and I'm pretty sure I only ever got about halfway through.

[Black Francis]

No Batty, i ain't playing the Snes Ogre battle again. i rather play FF8.
I KNOW the Tactic/Battle Ogre franchise is good but the only ones i like is the Gba one and N64 one

You know, If you really like the Snes one you can talk about it yourself, in fact i encourage you to do that with any game i don't cover..

Im gonna cover FF8 though, also FF 5, 6, 7 & 9.

Originally Posted by CoNtrivedNiHilism

If I don't see Chrono Trigger in this journal. I'm unsubscribing this sh*t.

I'll get to Chrono in due time don't worry.

[YorkeDaddy]

Can I get a list of suggested games that you've decided to cover/not cover? If you don't talk about DKC2 (which I still strongly recommend that you do) I'd be down to make a big post about it for this journal if that was fine with you